The Perot Museum offers camps for children in pre-kindergarten through the sixth grade called Discovery Camps. These camps happen year-round during Thanksgiving break, winter break, spring break, and summer break.

Each program lasts a week long and focuses on a different aspect of STEM including space, paleontology, and innovation. These camps are led by Perot Museum staff educators that believe hands-on learning is the best for young students.

“Kids don’t realize they’re learning when they are having so much fun and touching and feeling these topics that excite them,” Moore said.

The Discovery Corps is a group of high schoolers who assist the educators during Discovery Camps. The members of the Discovery Corps may become volunteers at the Perot Museum after the summer session is complete.

“This program is helping teens prepare for the real world, whether it’s a college application or a job,” Director of Volunteer Studies Jane Mullins said.

To become a member, high schoolers must send the Perot Museum a resume and go through an interview process. Eighty high school volunteers were selected.

After their duties during a Discovery Camp are over, the Discovery Corps work together on a project of their choice. At the end of the summer, the students will present their project to museum staff and their parents. Sometimes the Discovery Corps projects are chosen to be used in the museum.

With Discovery Camps, Discovery Corps, traveling exhibitions, and hands-on learning, the Perot Museum has a lot to offer students this summer.